Originally Posted by levin_money

He would never play the main event, simply because his advisers would never let "President Spends 4th of July Gambling in Vegas" become a headline even in The Onion.

BUT a really smart person would have invited him to the Ante Up for Africa tourney or bought him in, because obviously Obama <3's both Africa and poker, and that event is not on the 4th of July.

Something to think about for next year if it can't happen in '09.

Originally Posted by aa45955

He's a politician

Everything he does outside of closed doors is very, very carefully calculated by a team of public relations people

Even down to the order he placed at that burger joint. He said mustard, no ketchup

Big surprise, go online, look up what kind of burger order might upset people, and you find a huge following of people that are against ketchup on burgers

Look into the history of burgers, and you find that the earliest american burgers were all served with mustard as the only condiment

Mustard no ketchup is the best possible political decision he could've made when placing that order and that's no coincidence.